Michael Burleigh

London, UK

Founder and CEO

Sea Change Partners LLP

Biography

Michael Burleigh is a historian and commentator. His books include the best-selling, The Third Reich: A New History; Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65, which was long-listed for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize, which he won in 2001 and his latest book, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now.

He has also been active in bringing history to television audiences and won the British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement. He writes regularly for the The Times, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday on international affairs.

Personal Business Advice

Keep costs down and avoid fancy offices.

Michael Burleigh’s Newsfeed

13 Aug 2018

Which is the greater threat to the West, Saudi or Iran?

Historian and commentator, Michael Burleigh, writes: "Which is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia or Iran? President Trump’s decision to impose two waves of sanctions on Iran, in spite of the UN-mandated nuclear agreement suggests he thinks the latter..."

26 Jul 2018

Mail Online

WHAT BOOK: Author and historian Michael Burleigh reveals what book he'd take to a desert island

Michael Burleigh reveals he would take Dickens’s Bleak House to a desert island...

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Michael Burleigh’s Background

Sea Change Partners LLP

Founder and CEO

May 2012 - Present

London, UK

I run a pure political risk service that advises on major global trends as well as elections, parties, referenda etc and not on terrorism. We do not do due diligence or security work.

Other Business Interests

Book, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now

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Since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy & free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century have threatened the general acceptance that continued progress under the benign (or sometimes not so benign) gaze of the western powers is the only way forwards.

Book, The Third Reich: A New History

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A broad perspective and intellectual unity to issues that have become academic subspecialties and offers a brilliant new interpretation of Hitler's evil rule.

Book, Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World

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After the second world war and the collapse of the Western colonial empires, a number of vicious struggles for power ensued whose bloody consequences haunt us still. A dazzling work of history, which examines the death of colonialism with passion, insight and genuine understanding of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of realpolitik.

Book, Moral Combat: A History of World War II

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Presenting readers with a fresh perspective on the conflict during the Second World War, Michael explores the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, and how this changed under the impact of total war.

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism

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A history of terrorism across the world which explains and defines the meaning of terrorism and marks its progression from its hard to trace beginnings to the modern-day.

Book, Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War

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This book sets out the inextricable link between politics and Religion over the past two centuries from the French Revolution to the present day's War on Terror.

Book, Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics fromthe European Dictators to Al Qaeda

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'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.

Book, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945

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The Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a 'class' society along racial lines between 1933 and 1945. This book deals with the ideas and institutions which underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both victims and beneficiaries.

Book, Death and Deliverance

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In Death and Deliverance, Michael Burleigh conveys the horrifying history of the Nazi euthanasia project.

Book, Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich

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Book, Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide

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This series of essays by one of today's most prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: 'euthanasia', extermination and relations with 'the east'.

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Michael Burleigh’s Education

University College London

BA First Class Honours Modern History; PhD 1982

1974 - 1977